Emergent Voices

Robert Weaver  Maple Leaf

Emergent Voices

CBC Canadian Literary Awards Stories, 1979-1999

Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, and Gail Anderson-Dargatz are among the winners of the CBC Literary Award who have gone on to become some of the biggest names in Canadian literature. They and other past winners are included in Emergent Voices. For over twenty years, Robert Weaver has coordinated one of Canada's most important literary awards for emerging writers, the CBC Canadian Literary Awards. Weaver founded the awards and has been tireless in promoting them.
Fiction  /  Short Story Collections
Published:  September 01, 1999
287 pages

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Format Paperback  9780864922670  $24.95
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"A pleasant flow — the tapes would be equally listenable — to in one long gulp on a car ride, or one story at a time." — Quill & Quire

"Let these voices transport you." — Atlantic Books Today

As well as organizing the Canadian Literary Competition, Robert Weaver was fiction editor of Saturday Night. He edited many anthologies, including six editions of Canadian Short Stories and The Anthology Anthology: A Selection from Thirty Years of CBC Radio's "Anthology". He co-edited two editions each of The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature and The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English, and he was the editor of Mavis Gallant's collection The End of the World and Other Stories.